2014 Bring Back the Natives/More Fish Grant Awards

Total Grant Non-Federal ID Organization Project Title Location Description Project Description Award Match Add large woody debris to restore .9 miles of in-stream critical habitat Restoration of Goat in Goat Creek to benefit bull trout, rainbow trout, and westslope Goat Creek, a Methow River National Forest Creek Complexity for cutthroat trout. Project will add resiliency and enhance instream 45360 tributary, in the Upper Columbia $12,000 $12,000 Foundation Bull Trout and Other complexity by adding in-stream multi-log structures and single logs, Basin of Washington Salmonids (WA) block unauthorized stream crossings, and build fencing to protect newly created habitat from cattle encroachment. Protect and increase the Yellowstone cutthroat trout population in the Upper Shields River basin by installing non-native fish barriers and Shields River 25 miles of stream and river habitats physically removing non-native brook trout, a known threat to Park Conservation Yellowstone Cutthroat within Forest Service lands in the cutthroat trout population persistence in the basin. Temporary and 45393 $73,371 $138,671 District Trout Conservation – II Shields River basin, Park County, permanent fish barriers will prevent further invasion of brook trout (MT) Montana and facilitate removal of brook trout upstream of the barriers by preventing re-colonization of these stream reaches after the non- native trout are removed. Install a fish barrier on French Creek, remove non-native fish, and Southwestern Montana: 20 miles Montana restore native westslope cutthroat trout and Arctic grayling to 38 miles south of Anaconda, Montana in Department of French Creek Fish of stream upstream. Project will help establish one of the largest 45433 French Creek, a tributary of Deep $32,500 $243,152 Fish, Wildlife and Barrier Installation (MT) interconnected populations of westslope cutthroat trout in the upper Creek that flows into the Big Hole Parks Missouri River drainage and the only population of fluvial Arctic River grayling that would exist in the absence of non-native species. Investigate conservation status, distribution, abundance and threats, Bureau of Land and make management prescriptions for three sensitive and declining Dace Research and Northwestern Glaciated Plains and Management - dace species in northern Montana. Project will provide quantitative 45462 Conservation: Looking Northern Great Plains Ecoregions of $75,000 $115,000 Montana State baseline information to land and non-game managers to help them Forward (MT) central-eastern Montana Office make informed management decisions that will ensure conservation practices have long-standing positive effects. Address urgent data gaps concerning Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone cutthroat trout Yellowstone Cutthroat one of their remaining strongholds and help guide future management Friends of the stronghold tributary streams in the 45504 Trout Range-wide efforts. Project will benefit overall understanding of trout movements, $60,000 $120,000 Teton River, Inc. Teton watershed in Wyoming and Prioritization (ID) life histories, non-native pressures, trends in abundance and genetic Idaho issues, habitat utilization, and reactions to a changing climate. Work with partners and a major Little Shasta River landowner to help design strategies for stream flow and habitat restoration on the Little The Hart Ranch, a 4,400-acre ranch The Nature Little Shasta River Shasta River, an important element to the recovery of salmonids in 45509 located along the Little Shasta River $48,875 $49,458 Conservancy Restoration (CA) the Shasta River basin, including coho and Chinook salmon as well as in California steelhead. Project will implement planning activities that are necessary building blocks to achieve this recovery. The Tillamook-Nestucca subbasin, Work with partners to launch a priority fish passage project identified Tillamook-Nestucca which consists of 1) the five major and prioritized by the Tillamook-Nestucca Fish Passage Partnership. Trout Unlimited, 45520 Fish Passage and rivers that drain into Tillamook Bay, Project will open up four miles of high-priority trout and salmon $98,600 $325,941 Inc. Partnership (OR) Oregon and 2) the neighboring habitat and work toward restoring fish passage to 95 percent of Nestucca River watershed historically available habitat for six anadromous fish species by 2025.

Total Grant Non-Federal ID Organization Project Title Location Description Project Description Award Match Camp Creek Whole Place 3,000 boulders throughout four miles of mainstem Camp Creek Partnership for the Near Scottsburg, Oregon in the 45530 Watershed Restoration in Southwest Oregon to restore habitat for native salmonids. Project $49,279 $316,269 Umpqua Rivers Middle Umpqua River watershed (OR) represents the third phase of a watershed-scale restoration project. Work toward restoring floodplains and mine tailings in the Salmon River to improve riparian habitat, improve salmon rearing and refuge habitat, and reduce water temperatures as part of strategy to ensure a Salmon River Salmon River Mine- long-term climate refuge for coho and spring-run Chinook salmon in The Salmon River in Siskiyou County, 45543 Restoration Tailing Restoration and the Klamath Basin. Project will assess restoration opportunities and $47,497 $113,150 California (northwestern California) Council Coho Refuge (CA) constraints along with conceptual restoration designs for floodplain reaches, which would allow project area-wide permitting and environmental compliance and site-by-site restoration implementation based on a prioritized ranking. Work with partners to implement 15 watershed restoration projects in Curry Soil and New River Watershed The New River-Floras Creek the New River-Floras Creek watershed. Project activities will address Water 45578 Aquatic Restoration watershed, a 52,000-acre coastal basin water quality impairment (nutrients and sediment), simplified instream $63,000 $148,700 Conservation (OR) located on the southern Oregon coast rearing and spawning habitat for native salmonids, fish access, District underperforming riparian habitat, and invasive aquatic organisms. Use natural stream simulation design techniques to replace barriers to Connecticut River Eastern Brook Trout fish passage in an eastern brook trout watershed whose tributaries Oliverian Brook watershed in the 45641 Watershed Aquatic Organism flow off of the White Mountain National Forest and into the $50,050 $130,000 town of Haverhill, New Hampshire Council, Inc. Passage (NH) Connecticut River watershed. Project will also help identify and prioritize priority projects within the watershed. Construct a bridge to replace the Lukes Driveway barrier culvert, one Mountain View of five culverts in Mountain View Drainage that block or impede Mountain View Drainage in 45643 City of Gustavus Drainage Fish Barrier upstream passage of salmon, trout, and char. Project will restore fish $36,000 $80,000 Gustavus, Alaska Removal (AK) passage and natural flow, debris, and sediment conveyance in the channel. U.S. Fish and Lahontan Cutthroat Observe the movement and habitat selection of adult Lahontan Wildlife Service - Lower Truckee River below Derby Trout Monitoring cutthroat trout during the spawning season. Project will provide 45644 Lahontan National Dam, approximately 38 miles $75,000 $350,000 within the Truckee resource managers with valuable information to help guide Fish Hatchery upstream of Pyramid Lake, Nevada River (NV) management decisions for the recovery of the species. Complex Benefit native aquatic species by improving stream health in a heavily degraded valley bottom by constructing a new stream channel that Armstrong Creek in Routt County, Trout Unlimited, Upper Armstrong Creek reconnects with the historic floodplain. Project will restore four acres 45664 Colorado, 18 miles north of the town $50,000 $83,000 Inc. Restoration (CO) of degraded riparian/wetland habitat, improve 0.8 miles of stream of Hayden, Colorado habitat, and directly benefit Colorado River cutthroat trout, mountain sucker, northern boreal toad, and northern leopard frog. Remove existing stressors to increase bull trout and westslope Clark Fork Watershed Western Montana's Clark Fork River Trout Unlimited, cutthroat trout resistance and resilience to a changing climate. Project 45666 Restoration and watershed in Missoula, Powell and $97,500 $200,000 Inc. will restore riparian and hydrologic function and reconnect spawning Reconnection (MT) Granite counties and rearing habitats. Secure the most important thermal refuge for Klamath River salmon Private land adjacent to Six Rivers as part of a larger effort to acquire, restore, and permanently protect Western Rivers Blue Creek Salmon National Forest in Humboldt and Del 45691 47,097 acres of land in the Lower Klamath Basin. WRC will work $92,750 $262,397 Conservancy Sanctuary (CA) Norte Counties in northwestern with the Yurok Tribe to establish a cold-water sanctuary along lower California Blue Creek for coho, Chinook, and steelhead.

Total Grant Non-Federal ID Organization Project Title Location Description Project Description Award Match Work with partners to establish a long-term Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) monitoring program to collect data on critical spawning locations, migration patterns, and genetically distinct native Fall River Native Trout Fall River Wild Trout Area, the California Trout, trout sub-populations. Cal Trout will tag and measure 800 native Fall 45707 Population Monitoring largest spring-fed native trout fishery $50,000 $118,950 Inc. River trout; analyze genetic samples from tagged fish; install additional and Assessment (CA) in California PIT detection arrays along the Fall River; produce management recommendations from collected data; and coordinate quarterly Fall River Technical Advisory Committee meetings to oversee the project. Restoring Kern River Restore 2,000 feet of degraded meadow and stream for mountain Rainbow Trout and yellow legged frogs while improving water quality downstream for California Trout, Tributary of the upper Kern River in 45708 Amphibian Habitat in Kern River rainbow trout. Reducing fine sediment and temperature, $50,000 $85,900 Inc. Tulare County, California Osa Creek and Meadow moderating seasonal flows, and inundating the meadow will restore (CA) high quality habitat. Implement aquatic organism passage assessment, prioritization, and Priority watersheds within the restoration of severe in-stream barriers that threaten the long term Connecticut and Trout Unlimited, Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers of stability of high quality native brook trout habitat within priority areas. 45730 Merrimack River Basins $90,000 $450,000 Inc. eastern Vermont and western New Project will include a suite of assessment, design, and implementation Reconnection (VT, NH) Hampshire work located in four major watersheds in the Connecticut and Merrimack River basins. Remove a large fish barrier on the Redwater River in northeast Bureau of Land Nickwall Fish Barrier Northern Great Plains ecoregion in Montana and replace it with a fish-passable device. Removal of this Management - Removal on the the Redwater River, one of the largest 45738 barrier will allow fishes unimpeded access to over 25 miles of the $70,000 $250,000 Montana State Redwater River, tributaries to the lower Missouri River Redwater River where over 21 native fish species have been Office Montana in Montana documented. Advance recovery of steelhead populations in several tributaries to the Improving Habitat for San Francisco Bay by removing three high-priority barriers to open American Rivers, Steelhead in Tributaries San Francisquito Creek watershed in access to 11 miles of high-quality habitat. Project will increase fish 45750 $47,000 $47,000 Inc. to the San Francisco California’s San Francisco Bay migration and import of ocean nutrients at the barrier sites; improve Bay water quality and habitat conditions; and improve resiliency of aquatic species.